The jazz practice method that IMPROVED my playing.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Support me with a donation here if you’ve been helped:) buymeacoffee.com/thembidmusic

[@cwinn414]

I’m learning jazz with Open Studio, Peter Martin online, and I can tell you that your teaching method is insanely better to me

[@TRPLAW]

Your comment is not complete if you don't say how it is insanely better

[@_sonicfive]

@@TRPLAW that's enough for the rest of us

[@TRPLAW]

@@_sonicfive and that makes it enough? And who is the "rest of "us"?? Who is us?

[@alejandromedina2349]

I hear you :) I tried Open Studio when I was just starting piano. Big mistake (from me). Their courses are not for real beginners in piano, but for beginners in jazz, and even then. I really like their content, but I would not recommended it as a sole source to begin with unless it resonates with you at your current level. Don’t get me wrong, they are very good at. And I really enjoy the content from Adam. But, I am now like a intermediate jazz piano player and when I reviewed their chord beginner course, I realize they use far advanced voicings for a beginner player. Of course you may learnt it ( I did it fora few keys) but you will not understand what is going on after some years along on the road [please forget any error, my English is a little rusty]

[@bstein9500]

I love the way your eyes ask 'did you get that'?

[@mickcarpenter2963]

I really like your approach Thembi- systematic, the whole range of things we need to embed as jazz musicians, but you don’t overcomplicate. Then you show how it should sound

[@Victor48323]

Thank you so much for your excellent videos. You come across as someone who’s very smart, genuine and very modest. Your language in the tutorial is clear and easy to understand.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Great💯‼️

[@tamboresdomundo8156]

So nice to see you play/practice in real time, and talk about it, thank you!

[@eliastristan1831]

No time wasted, no irrelevant information, very helpful. Perfect video👍👍

[@aldali724]

Commented on this a month ago but been using some of these techniques lately to master my major and minor keys. This video has helped better than anything I’ve watched since I started learning

[@thembelihledunjana]

Amazing🩷💯

[@Buckleupbucko]

So I’ve been practicing the right things…. I feel validated!!

[@lanceregan2571]

I am a student of OpenStudio pro.Looking forward to your teaching there. Thanks and well done .Clear and easy to follow.

[@fabianaddo]

You are just a great player

[@TRIHEDRAL]

You are such an honest and kind-hearted person. Just found your channel today and I absolutely love it so much. I am a pianist myself living in NYC - I went to Berklee in Boston and your stories resonate with me so much. If you live in NYC I would love to jam

[@thembelihledunjana]

I’m in South Africa but hope to move there sometime🩷

[@polyinstrumentalist]

Thank you. You are opening eyes and ears for many of us who needed a breakthrough.

[@daleedmeade167]

Love and appreciate your style and clarity.

[@cazanu4209]

The pivoting technique was an eye opener

[@thembelihledunjana]

Nice💯

[@thormusique]

I love this, thank you! I also really love your playing, as you have such a beautiful sense of Line. I find it mesmerising. Cheers!

[@mathieukenne897]

Thanks a lot. I have always wanted to learn Jazz without knowing how to go about it. With your teaching, l started seeing what to do in order to start. Keep it up. I love the way you teach me, simple, clear, understandable.

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re welcome💯🩷

[@patrickLee_born_again]

This is good and easy to understand and follow. thank you very much Thembi!

[@jumill]

Your principles make lots of sense. Practical. Thanks

[@debbsplab42]

I signed up at OS a few weeks ago and then they tell me last week that you're going to start doing tutorials there! The way you share your experiences learning is so encouraging. They're really lucky to have you

[@thembelihledunjana]

🩷

[@venusspacey9685]

@@thembelihledunjanaI know you are genuinely helping people out. But you have to gate keep from some people who only want to steal from you.

[@KAMOYA17]

Thanks!

[@desmodromic640]

Your journey and truth telling are extremely motivating

[@afrochaka]

really usefull thanx for sharing you qare awesome and generous

[@Simonjmfarmer]

What a fantastic video Thembi! I’m a sax player but I’m absolutely going to use some of your ideas on the horn. I loved the voicings section too though which I was very intrigued by…I work my way through chord changes on the piano playing basic roots in the left and triads in the right and this really showed me how you can open out the harmony to make it sound so much better! Thank you!

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re welcome

[@max_wah_wah]

Great advice for how to approach practicing! I want to add timing. I have the metronome play as few beats as possible without losing track of time. Say, I improvise on a jazz blues in up-tempo while the metronome only plays the first beat of every fourth measure-e.g., Straight No Chaser or Tenor Madness with the metro at 12 bpm, meaning the metro only plays beat one in every fourth measure. Chad LB explains this method in some videos, but finding them is challenging because they are folded into other topics. 😊

[@calicookstunes6530]

Wow! This is great. Thank you so much.

[@paulmuench7830]

Thank you. You and I are working on the same beautiful puzzles.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Appreciate it

[@scratchesonajazzkeyboard1681]

Thank you. Some great tips there.

[@comlanogou6328]

Wonderful lesson.

[@sebastianramosflores7299]

Just learning jazz. Your video helped me organize my practice.❤

[@jilllyjarman]

I really like your approach - thank you - I'll recommend this

[@skimanization]

Wow, great stuff and presentation, Thembi. I might have told you i'm not a pianist but a saxophonist. As I live in Ireland and UK I was always told to always check out the piano. To be honest I love shell voicings and wished that someone would one day would write or arrange a couple or handful of Jazz standards using just those voicings (1-7 &1-3 with extensions 9, 11, &13) I would be the foist one to buy that book. Of cause a serious jazz piano student would learn be liberated by your wonderful Jazz piano teaching skills.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Hi :)

[@onetwo8287]

You are very good.

[@carneliansound1125]

Great video.. nice braids

[@thembelihledunjana]

Thanks💯

[@neomatalingoane4159]

Wow such information is scarce on KZbin. Thank you so much mam.

[@soundneil]

Very helpful Thembi, thank you for sharing

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re welcome

[@KevinSimpson031]

Great video, I just got back into learning how to play, and I will definitely be implementing this.

[@johnrothfield6126]

12:00 drop 2 9 voicings

[@oriakhifrederick8657]

Great lecture

[@justin.johnson]

Absolutely fantastic 🎉

[@StanleyKubick1]

I'm not really at a level yet for this to be relevant to my playing, but I can appreciate a well-made tutorial by a talented teacher with a silky-smooth voice

[@blissrae-ul3qk]

I was going to say, this video seems amazing but I was absolutely humbled the moment she started playing those scales 😂 so far beyond what I’m able to do right now. I’m saving this so I can try again in six months lolol

[@cragedouglas9465]

Very good points, thanks very much.

[@evarsingersongwriter6228]

Great advice ❤

[@Bashanvibe]

I need this!!! Will help with dexterity and being in situations where I’m forced to take long solos!!!

[@avirutdk]

Tons of thx

[@brettwr2873]

Thanks very much. Beautiful lesson

[@BJ-fj6jw]

Good idea. Subscribed!❤

[@cwinn414]

OMG, excellent video, priceless… thank you for sharing.

[@jsmacks11]

Nice video. Beautiful playing.

[@thembelihledunjana]

Thanks

[@BrianMegilligan]

Your four octave scales are actually 16th notes, not eighths. Eighths would give you two octaves! I’ve been doing 2/3/4 octave scales for years - but only major and minor. It’s a good idea to integrate bebop scales into my routine.

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re right

[@badassWP]

I love your playing...

[@thembelihledunjana]

Thank you🩷💯

[@LowKeyTired-q7d]

Yes bro you do have to keep it simple. There is nothing worse than too many things at once!

[@2xryzeonyt]

I really like this

[@ClbnaVGM]

Excellent content ! Thank you :)😃

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re welcome

[@jumill]

Would you please take some time explaining the fingerings for these scales exercises. I notice use of different finger to note position as you run up and down the beginning and ending notes of the scales. I would appreciate it. Thanks

[@EasyAsPieSongChords]

Grea advise and presentation ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@_GC_2006]

Amazing video!

[@stevebrown5597]

Ha this is excellent thanks! I’m off to practice!

[@Aurora_Animates]

Nice :)thank you

[@Dannytyrellstudios]

Nice session..sounding wonderful

[@thembelihledunjana]

Thank you💯🎹

[@tatin71]

Muchas gracias, excelente video... Like... Nuevo suscriptor

[@SampaJasli]

nice

[@jayrussell26]

Brilliant

[@LudovikModzart]

WOOOOOOW!! RIP Mozart fr😂😂 I'm switching sides bcz of you Ms Thembi 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@thembelihledunjana]

lol!

[@aldali724]

Is there a part 2 for this coming one day?

[@thembelihledunjana]

Yeah, I will try

[@UgoCei]

Thanks for a great video. I am looking forward to your classes on OS. Just one question: at 12:41 you say that going to the dominant, your right hand stays exactly the same, and in fact it does in the video, but the sheet music shows the D going to a C# (b9 in the C7 chord). Which one is "more" correct, if there is one? Thanks again.

[@thembelihledunjana]

It stays the same if you aren’t adding the tension. But if you add that 9b for dominant, you’ll have to move a half step down from D to Db💯 Good to practice both ways

[@UgoCei]

@@thembelihledunjana thanks!

[@lovehyun8]

감사해요~

[@thembelihledunjana]

🩷

[@danhamilton1920]

great video, very helpful, i cant find the pdf that you mentioned.......

[@thembelihledunjana]

It’s in the description but here is the link: buymeacoffee.com/ThembiDMusic/e/306853

[@armandeloundou9722]

Thanks alot 🙏

[@thembelihledunjana]

You’re welcome

[@wingkitcwk]

does the book "comprehensive jazz piano practice" share the how to assign fingering in improvisation?

[@thembelihledunjana]

Nope sorry :(

[@LannisChess]

Awesome, what piano are you using ?

[@thembelihledunjana]

Roland fp30 :)

[@louismaiden8360]

What song is at the end (minute 17). Always forget the name :)

[@thembelihledunjana]

When Sunny Gets Blue

[@Craine23]

I like 👌🏾

[@MeirivamCosta]

Cada nota em uma batida do metrônomo?

[@ugajin7348]

"...by the way there's a PDF attached that outlines all the exercises that I will now share in this video" ?

[@thembelihledunjana]

It’s in the description. But here’s the link: buymeacoffee.com/ThembiDMusic/e/306853

[@olivierbrionne9302]

Please why is there a C# in F major?

[@thembelihledunjana]

It’s a passing step

[@tafaemachimbiz6276]

Do you provide mentorship by any chance? 👀 I've been playing piano for nearly 10 years and I believe I can do with a mentor to reach the next level

[@thembelihledunjana]

Yes, please email me here explaining what exactly you need: [e-mail]

[@arielspalter7425]

Your 8th notes were actually 16th…😊 excellent video!!

[@thembelihledunjana]

Yes, that was a mistake😅

[@bh5606]

Over my head.

[@mbuso_cele_]

lol be kind to yourself we've all been there you will be just fine

[@Amapiano777]

nc

[@gac0x]

For more progress, play with a double bass player, and with a drummer with real sticks 😀 ...

[@RobertHugginsDJ]

😃😃😃 Your Content is excellent. Great sound wins out over video quality for a win on KZbin. Your voice in this video is coloured by the sound of the room. It is suggested that we put a mic much closer to us. For instance, a singer would not work as far from the mic as you are now, and neither should you in this video. The mic can be closer and out of the shot, OR you can have a mic like a radio announcer. OR a lapel mic. It comes down to style. Whatever you choose, the mic needs to be like the song "Close To You." 😆Go out of your way to make the piano sound impeccable. You and the piano are the product of your KZbin Channel, and I suggest it needs to sound good. You can use an interface for this aspect on the piano. Why have outstanding playing like you have but have it sound like it's coming from the garage across the road. LOL 😂. Just so you know - everything I've said is a suggestion only. I am trying to help someone who is obviously good but has not had what I am saying brought to their attention. Good Luck with everything. 👏👏👏👍

[@Gerard_2024]

I hear the piano and her voice equally perfectly. I don't understand the basis for your comment ?

[@RobertHugginsDJ]

@@Gerard_2024 H iGerard, You are correct, however experience by many KZbinrs is that wild sound as captured here is good enough, but close mic’s is a technique that brings intimacy. It comes down to intent, how do I want my KZbin channel to be 　IE；small time or big time. Either is a legitimate way of doing it but research has shown that videos with great audio hold retention even more than great visuals with average sound. I hope you find this info informative :)

[@dosenkaffee]

[@johndoe-rq1pu]

I’m trying to envision the person who is at a level that they’re playing gigs and backing people up but they haven’t figured out a practice routine yet.

[@peachum5939]

You say and write 8th notes, but you play 16th notes. 🤔

[@thembelihledunjana]

That was a mistake

[@johnnyterra1309]

she be counting up how to practice like its rocket science.....please dont forget to mention to use ur head while practicing. lels

[@nnekoblacknotemoshoeshoe]

This is beautiful🎉❤🙏🏻Is it possible you do maybe some of Bheki mseleku's tunes or maybe share how do you transcribe chords/Voicings by ear

[@googlepigs7027]

I wish l had those awesome long fingers ! I'am a 6ft. tall man, and l have the shortest fingers l've seen on any person. They're slightly longer than half of yours, length. It REALLY sucks for playing piano !

[@massimobuonaiuto3566]

Beautiful and inspiring, thank you so much.